Here's my suggestion. Obama should issue a Letter of Marque to a consortium of US shipping companies under the 1802 Privateer Act to raid pirate shipping and lairs. The consortium purchases USS Iowa out of the Suisun Reserve Fleet and fits her out with crew and armaments and sends her to the Somali coast. She starts at the southernmost pirate lair and uses her 16-inch and five-inch guns to reduce the lair to a pile of smoking rubble. Any ships recovered from the pirates become prizes and the property of the consortium under maritime anti-piracy and salvage laws. Any ships that refuse to surrender are sunk or destroyed. Any pirates captured are summarily hanged from the yardarms. Once the first lair is destroyed, Iowa moves north along the coast repeating the process until all pirate ports and shipping are destroyed.
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